Craig Santos Perez The Pacific Written Tradition

Pádraig Ó Tuama – Ex Nihilo

Ocean Vuong My Ulysses(s)

David Hernandez  – God in a Knot

Ricardo Pau-Llosa  – Like

MICHAEL CHANG  – THE LAST ORGY

Heid E. Erdrich –  Memorial; Offering: The Child

Maggie Smith  – The Shepherd’s Horn

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm  – The Day the World Begins

Jennifer Foerster  – Vanishing Point

Carmen Giminéz Migraine and “First Coda”

David Mura  – Summers with the JACL

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Ursula K. Le Guin  – The Queen of Spain, Grown Old and Mad, Writes to the Daughter She Imagines She Had by Christopher Columbus

Ellen Bass  – The Woman Across the Hall

Brenda Cárdenas  – A Wisconsin Poem for May Day, 2011

Judith Skillman  – The Animals of Complicity

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Wo Chan – My Mother’s Bra

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Terrance Hayes – Jumpschool: Poem for my Brother in Air

B. Batchelor – Prison Pastoral

Stephen Booker – About the Size of It

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Mary Oliver – Picking Blueberries: Austerlitz, New York, 1957

Timothy Liu – Called to Serve Him

Naomi Shihab Nye  – Yeast

Aimee Nezhukumatathil  – SELF-PORTRAIT AS AN EGG-TEMPERA ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT FROM 1352

Mary Zane Allen  – The Indictment

Aimee Bender  Legacy

Shauna Singh Baldwin  Family Ties

William Heyen The Banana Parable

Kyoko Mori Green Glass

Gordon Henry The Blue Turtle Parable Slam

Deb Olin Unferth Bringing Bato

Tiphanie Yanique A Place to Live and Die In

Christine Sneed  The Virginity of Famous Men

Dustin Hoffman While Dorothy Sleeps, Tin Woodman Visits Web MD

Roxane Gay We Are All So Happy Now

Jinny Koh Balut

Paige Towers The Sound of an Imitated Ocean

Michelle Richmond  – The Man Who Could Not Forget

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